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>> Google can't search inside Discord. Can anyone, even in theory? Are there open APIs to all systems of discord? Does Discord have one? Wouldn't that open up

>> Google can't search inside Discord. Can anyone, even in theory? Are there open APIs to all systems of discord? Does Discord have one? Wouldn't that open up all of these systems to systematic classification of all users? Also, is there a web link you can construct that will open up e.g. Discord's desktop app when you click it?

krageon 5y ago
Searching Discord externally is not possible AFAIK. It's an actively user-hostile platform, which is doubly irritating because most community efforts (e.g. modding of games) mandate Discord and allow for nothing else. Frequently they don't even accept communication from another space, such as bug reports via email or GitHub.
- ciphol 5y ago
  That is good for privacy though.
  - lpcvoid 5y ago
    No - anonymous accounts are good for privacy. If you're contributing information about something, having that information index-able is just common sense.
  - krageon 5y ago
    It's practically mandatory to "verify" your account with a phone number for many servers. Discord is incredibly anti-privacy, the fact that it is not transparent to people that aren't currently using it is a vendor lock-in measure.
    - neutronicus 5y ago
      You're probably much less likely to leak PII to non-community members through Discord than a forum. I also think ephemeral-by-default seems to result in much fewer long-running fights than you would have in public-record-by-default communities like forums. Like when a thread gets heated in a forum, it keeps getting bumped and none of the people involved can resist picking at the sore. On Discord it seems like someone steps away, the channel moves on, and the fight actually dies
darkerside 5y ago
The world wide web is not the world. If it exists you can search it. Even if you need to open a client, run Discord search, and execute OCR to interpret the results. In tech, it's never what's possible, it's just what costs area reasonable.
- AmericanBlarney 5y ago
  Or what's legally allowed by the ToS...
  - darkerside 5y ago
    Explore a partnership, figure out how to mask your usage, etc. Not impossible. If you're looking for defeat, you will find it.
nikanj 5y ago
Even Discord can’t search inside Discord

krageon 5y ago

Searching Discord externally is not possible AFAIK. It's an actively user-hostile platform, which is doubly irritating because most community efforts (e.g. modding of games) mandate Discord and allow for nothing else. Frequently they don't even accept communication from another space, such as bug reports via email or GitHub.

ciphol 5y ago
That is good for privacy though.
- lpcvoid 5y ago
  No - anonymous accounts are good for privacy. If you're contributing information about something, having that information index-able is just common sense.
- krageon 5y ago
  It's practically mandatory to "verify" your account with a phone number for many servers. Discord is incredibly anti-privacy, the fact that it is not transparent to people that aren't currently using it is a vendor lock-in measure.
  - neutronicus 5y ago
    You're probably much less likely to leak PII to non-community members through Discord than a forum. I also think ephemeral-by-default seems to result in much fewer long-running fights than you would have in public-record-by-default communities like forums. Like when a thread gets heated in a forum, it keeps getting bumped and none of the people involved can resist picking at the sore. On Discord it seems like someone steps away, the channel moves on, and the fight actually dies

darkerside 5y ago

The world wide web is not the world. If it exists you can search it. Even if you need to open a client, run Discord search, and execute OCR to interpret the results. In tech, it's never what's possible, it's just what costs area reasonable.

AmericanBlarney 5y ago
Or what's legally allowed by the ToS...
- darkerside 5y ago
  Explore a partnership, figure out how to mask your usage, etc. Not impossible. If you're looking for defeat, you will find it.

nikanj 5y ago

Even Discord can’t search inside Discord